Papers originally presented at a symposium held at the University of Pittsburgh in the fall of 2004.
Changing Japanese families / Akiko Hashimoto, John W. Traphagan
Blondie, Sazae, and their storied successors : Japanese families in newspaper comics / Akiko Hashimoto
From spiritual fathers to Tokyo godfathers : depictions of the family in Japanese animation / Susan J. Napier
Agony of eldercare : two Japanese women directors study an age-old problem / Keiko I. McDonald
Mass arrests, sensational crimes and stranded children : three crises for Japanese New Left activists' families / Patricia G. Steinhoff
Is "Japan" still a big family? Nationality and citizenship at the edge of the Japanese archipelago / Mariko Asano Tamanoi
Somone's old, something's new, someone's borrowed, someone's blue : changing elder care at the turn of the 21st century / Susan Orpett Long.
Imagined families, lived families : culture and kinship in contemporary Japan. ISBN 9780791475782. Published by SUNY Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.